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fallacy:
I don’t believe in gaming laptops, to much extra cost, fan nose and bulk. The one you linked I would hardly call a gaming laptop unless your idea of gaming is some xbox 360 power 30 FPS for most games, none VR compliant. If you want a laptop for travel I would get a thinner and lighter one with a touch screen.

Howard_Casto:

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--- Quote from: yotsuya on May 31, 2019, 05:56:32 pm ---I know you say you don’t have the room, but if I’m gaming, it’s a new desky over a lappy 100% of the time. You make the room.

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+1 twice the performance, half the cost.

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+2 Also when it starts getting old you can actually upgrade the video card, add ram, ect instead of buying a whole new machine. Laptops kind of suck for gaming because once they are outdated there isn't much you can do.

Titchgamer:
Yeah I know a PC would be better but I literally have nowhere to put a desk for a rig.

Titchgamer:
I have done a bit of reading up on the new processors and GFX chips (man shits changed allot in the last 10-15 years!)

So it seems the suggested setup is a i5/7 gen 8 H series CPU backed up by a GeForce GTX GPU and if I go for a 1060 or higher they are also VR compatible.
Though tbh I am not likely to be going down the VR route with it and probably wont need that level of power for what I plan on doing with it but its nice to have a little extra right??

So I am thinking of going for something like this which is a little more than I was looking to fork out originally but it is what it is.
https://ao.com/product/fx705gmew019t-asus-laptop-black-63447-251.aspx

The biggest dip on that seems to be the RAM but otherwise seems pretty decent price and the RAM is easy to upgrade at a later date if I really need to.

Any other thoughts or suggestions other than get a PC?
Which I probably will once I have a bigger house and some more cabinets but thats a dream away atm.....

BadMouth:
I have an 8 year old i7 Alienware M14x (nvidia 550m).
Mobo was bad out of the box and went back under warranty.
Entire thing needs to be disassembled to replace cmos battery.
A windows update made the graphics card fan run full blast constantly for a few years before up update finally fixed it.
(I also had an alienware alpha die twice. Once under warranty and once after.)
The laptop is still going and still pretty snappy after an SSD upgrade and maxing out RAM, but I've had it apart 3 or 4 times to fix things or replace the cmos battery.
Circa MAME v140, it could run Ridge Racer full speed as long as only one screen was active. (would choke if displayed on laptop display and over hdmi simultaneously)
It's been my main PC and the most powerful PC in my house until I built a new desktop last year to rip blurays.

So my advice is...don't buy an Alienware, but do buy the most kick ass processor you can afford because it will stay usable for more years into the future.
You can upgrade RAM after the sting of the original purchase wears off. I'd probably get a Lenovo if buying today.

Wait for some kind of sale or coupon code. The original sticker price of my Alienware was over $2,200, but I was able to get it for around $1,200 by stacking coupon codes.
It was a lot to pay, but it still performs acceptably 8 years later.

EDIT: I haven't shopped for laptops for a while and aren't a big gamer, but the Asus you linked to begin with seems pretty acceptable to me. SSD for fast bootup, 1TB for storage, 16GB of RAM is plenty.
Not much need to upgrade any of those later.

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